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A life-long renegade, singer/songwriter David Allan Coe is one of the most colorful and unpredictable characters in country music history. One of the pioneering artists of the outlaw country movement of the ’70s, he hasn’t had many big hits — only three of his singles hit the Top Ten — but he has been among the biggest cult figures in country music throughout his career.
Born in Akron, OH, Coe first got into trouble with the law at age nine. As a result, he was sent to reform school. For the next 20 years, he never spent more than a handful of months outside of a correctional facility — he spent much of his twenties in the Ohio State Penitentiary. Released from prison in 1967, the wild-haired, earring-wearing, heavily tattooed Coe went straight for Nashville, where he lived in a hearse that he parked in front of the old Ryman Auditorium, the home of the Grand Ole Opry. Although he didn’t conform to Nashville’s professional standards, he soon gained the attention of the independent label Plantation Records, which released his debut album, Penitentiary Blues, in 1968. Followed within a year by a second volume, all of the songs on these albums were based on his prison experiences.
Coe then toured with Grand Funk Railroad, a signal that he drew as much from rock’s traditions as he did from country. Soon, he began performing in a rhinestone suit given to him by Mel Tillis, as well as a Lone Ranger mask, and began calling himself the “Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy.
Born in Akron, OH, Coe first got into trouble with the law at age nine. As a result, he was sent to reform school. For the next 20 years, he never spent more than a handful of months outside of a correctional facility — he spent much of his twenties in the Ohio State Penitentiary. Released from prison in 1967, the wild-haired, earring-wearing, heavily tattooed Coe went straight for Nashville, where he lived in a hearse that he parked in front of the old Ryman Auditorium, the home of the Grand Ole Opry. Although he didn’t conform to Nashville’s professional standards, he soon gained the attention of the independent label Plantation Records, which released his debut album, Penitentiary Blues, in 1968. Followed within a year by a second volume, all of the songs on these albums were based on his prison experiences.
Coe then toured with Grand Funk Railroad, a signal that he drew as much from rock’s traditions as he did from country. Soon, he began performing in a rhinestone suit given to him by Mel Tillis, as well as a Lone Ranger mask, and began calling himself the “Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy.
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duut wrote:
JD if u pls!
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duut wrote:
me like
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WSteven wrote:
true country outlaw
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staklee2002mj wrote:
sounds like a dire straights track
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Rooster____ wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/Outlaw+Country
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JoshAnthonyBell wrote:
He certainly has balls. Everyone who says that he's a racist is a moron.
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Austin_Rac wrote:
"hall balls" tag ownes the whole site.
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newbsdid911 wrote:
Fuck Anite Bryany is a classic.
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GrimAxeman wrote:
David Allan Coe own words on racism: « "Anyone that (...) says I'm a racist is full of shit," Coe says, adding that the slur entered his vocabulary in prison, where he received encouragement to write the songs that would make up Penitentiary Blues from a man in the next cell: R&B singer Screamin' Jay Hawkins. "I was one of about fifteen white boys . . . and that word didn't mean nothin'. I used to have to fight my way outta everywhere because I hung around black guys." » (from Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/coe-revisits-penitentiary-20050714)
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Roust777 wrote:
whispymound you say racist he sometime listen hip hop and in him band playing black guy
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whispymound wrote:
Racist fuck
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coe4halloffame wrote:
sign the petition to put dac in the country music hall of fame
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Wonrei wrote:
top artist on the nigger tag
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LarryDodd wrote:
ur my fucking idol ur awesum come 2 south stokes walnut cove north carolina fuck yea fyck them niggers
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TheHolyman666 wrote:
The man.
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traqua89 wrote:
Xucatlan, thank you for your answer :) I have just ordered my first hard copy of a DAC album, waiting for it to arrive this week. Last week I found out that DAC is the man behind "Take this job and shove it", which I earlier thought was originally written by Johnny Paycheck. I have more respect for the man after realising he has written songs for many of the greatest, including Willie Nelson!
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Xucatlan wrote:
@Traqua89, it's not true that most of his songs are covers. Something about 85-90% of his songs are written completely by him or with cooperation with somebody. For example, 'Requiem for Harlequin', 'Longhaired Redneck' or 'Rides again', 'Nothing Sacred', 'Underground Album', 'I've Got Something To Say' are albums without any covers. And as I said those are only examples, he has more albums with no covers.
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traqua89 wrote:
@ChronicDespair, you are a filthy ugly man
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ChronicDespair wrote:
Filthy racist
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KeiONN wrote:
yeah~!
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